[time-nuts] Re: GPS D (i.e. gpsd) roll over bug..Oct 24th

[Björn]

”It's actually a systemflaw that never was fixed in L1 C/A code. It would have been good if they added additional GPS-weeks bits in that signal, but it never materialiseras. It did for other newer signals.”

The L1 C/A was optimised many decades ago. How Do you change the bitstream definition, considering several satellite generations running in parallel. Some approaching 20 years since launch. Many years more since design.

How do you ensure that old and current working C/A-code receivers don’t turn into unusable crap?  (Including the systems they reside in)

Systemflaw... for a system designed now yes. For one designed in the 70-ties, still running the show No. Not in my view.


/Björn